Conversions to Islam
An alarming feature of our current sociocultural world is the striking frequency of conversions to Islam across the entire gamut of Western private and public life: prisoners converting to the religion of peace in record numbers; women who crave the emotional comfort and feeling of security that donning the hijab or the niqab purportedly confers; disaffected youth who find purpose and meaning in attending the mosque, often becoming radicalized in the process; African-Americans reacting against Christianity as the white man’s religion and who “associate conversion to Islam with recovering their ethnic heritage”; political figures who, whether secretly or publicly, swear by the Koran, the most conspicuous recent example being the bizarre spectacle of Arnoud Van Doorn, one of the Dutch producers of the uncompromising anti-Islam film Fitna and a former leading member of Geert Wilders’ Freedom Party, happily and gratefully converting to Islam. Even a Gitmo prison guard proved unable to resist the seduction of Islam. To read only a partial list of notable converts to Islam is chastening.
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The ultimate betrayal
Israeli and Palestinian sources on Wednesday denied a report to the effect that, under a new American bid to kick-start peace talks, Israel would transfer security control over most West Bank villages to the Palestinians in return for the PA forgoing its bid to gain statehood status in international organizations.
According to “highly knowledgeable Palestinian sources” who spoke to the London-based daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi, US Secretary of State John Kerry has updated Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the outline of his peace plan, which will eventually lead to a Palestinian state based on the pre-1967 lines, with land swaps and “constructive solutions” for the issue of Jerusalem’s holy sites.
Britain’s Feckless, Two-Faced Approach to Radical Islam
The planning of violent atrocities continues in Britain. The government has still failed to curb the spread of violent agitation, and a necessary, firm and united opposition to radical Islam remains lacking at the official level.
If the U.S. authorities are beset by questions about their capacity for the prevention – or lack thereof – of Islamist terrorism, similar questions need to be asked about the response to terror conspiracies in Britain.
In the U.S., the debate is fed by the continuing, controversial aftermath of the murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, including Ambassador John Christopher Stevens and three of his compatriots, last year, as well as by the recent bombings in Boston.
The Benghazi Talking Points
The Weekly Standard has an excellent article on the “talking points” and how they were changed to obscure the truth
- After a briefing on Capitol Hill by CIA director David Petraeus, Democrat Dutch Ruppersburger, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, asked the intelligence community for unclassified guidance on what members of Congress could say in their public comments on the attacks. The CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis prepared the first draft of a response to the congressman, which was distributed internally for comment at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, September 14 (Version 1 at right). This initial CIA draft included the assertion that the U.S. government “know that Islamic extremists with ties to al Qaeda participated in the attack.” That draft also noted that press reports “linked the attack to Ansar al Sharia. The group has since released a statement that its leadership did not order the attacks, but did not deny that some of its members were involved.” Ansar al Sharia, the CIA draft continued, aims to spread sharia law in Libya and “emphasizes the need for jihad.” The agency draft also raised the prospect that the facilities had been the subject of jihadist surveillance and offered a reminder that in the previous six months there had been “at least five other attacks against foreign interests in Benghazi by unidentified assailants, including the June attack against the British Ambassador’s convoy.”
Silence of the lambs
Op-ed: America’s promotion of ‘softened Arab peace initiative’ a spit in the face of Israeli democracy
Elyakim Haetzni, YNET NEWS
Elyakim Haetzni, YNET NEWS
The buds of peace are blossoming again, and, as always, they are being irrigated with Jewish blood. Eviatar Borovsky joined more than 1,500 “victims of peace” since Oslo – a huge political experiment with humans as lab animals.
Everything is planned in advance: Obama’s visit, an onslaught of smiles and love to soften the land; the launching of the “John Kerry 1967 flight route”; flying a group of figureheads headed by the Qatari PM to Washington, supposedly on behalf of the Arab League, so they can speak of “minor” land swaps as a change in the “Arab initiative”; blowing this item out of proportion and presenting it as a “diplomatic turnaround”; making manipulative use of the term “changes to the 1967 borders” so Abbas will be able to say that his demand that the 1967 borders serve as a basis for negotiations has been accepted and Netanyahu will be able to climb down from his tree and claim that the “minor changes” mean we will not be returning to the 1967 borders; an urgent trip by Livni and Netanyahu’s adviser Molcho to Washington in order to “keep the momentum going”; the establishment of a joint Israeli-Palestinian committee to select the terrorists Israel will release as an entry pass to the negotiations; and also a referendum, so Netanyahu will be able to hind behind the nation’s back before he divides Jerusalem.
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US to arm Syrian rebels: Putin’s rebuke, Chinese “peace plan”
DEBKAfile Special Report May 7, 2013, 2:19 PM
Negative diplomatic ricochets are pursuing Israel in the aftermath of its air force attacks on Syria. In the first place, they are seen to have had no effect on Hizballah’s successful military intervention on the side of the Assad regime or the Syrian war at large. In the second, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by President Vladimir Putin Monday, May 6, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond.
Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to Syria.
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Ted Belman
Jerusalem, Israel
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